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This book Download ePub PDF eBook Online - 1984 - The year has come and gone but George Orwell s prophetic nightmarish vision in of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever i i is still the great modern...

This book Download ePub PDF eBook Online - Animal Farm - As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago this remarkable allegory of a downtrodden society of overworked mistreated animals and their quest t...

This book Download ePub PDF eBook Online - Animal Farm / 1984 - This edition features George Orwell s best known novels i i and i Animal Farm i with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens . In i i London is a grim city wher...

This book Download ePub PDF eBook Online - Down and Out in Paris and London - This unusual fictional account in good part autobiographical narrates without self pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among ...

This book Download ePub PDF eBook Online - Homage to Catalonia - In Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fascists This famous account describes the war and Orwell s experien...

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This book Download ePub PDF eBook Online - Keep the Aspidistra Flying - London Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god and Gordon is losing the war Nearly and rather moth eaten already a poet whose one small book of verse ...

This book Download ePub PDF eBook Online - The Road to Wigan Pier - A searing account of George Orwell s experiences of working class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire i The Road to Wigan Pier i...

This book Download ePub PDF eBook Online - Coming Up for Air - George Bowling the hero of this comic novel is a middle aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children ...

This book Download ePub PDF eBook Online - Shooting an Elephant - Shooting an Elephant is Orwell s searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma killing an escaped elephant in fro...

Burmese Days, The Road to Wigan Pier, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Animal Farm / 1984, Animal Farm, Shooting an Elephant, Down and Out in Paris and London, Coming Up for Air, 1984, Homage to Catalonia

Shooting an Elephant is Orwell s searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd solely to avoid looking a fool The other masterly essays in this collection include classics such as My Country Right or Left How the Poor Die and Such Such were the Joys his memoir of the horrors of public school as well as discussions of Shakespeare sleeping rough boys weeklies and a spirited defence of English cooking Opinionated uncompromising provocative and hugely entertaining all show Orwell s unique ability to get to the heart of any subject, As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago this remarkable allegory of a downtrodden society of overworked mistreated animals and their quest to create a paradise of progress justice and equality is one of the most scathing satires ever published As we witness the rise and bloody fall of the revolutionary animals we begin to recognize the seeds of totalitarianism in the most idealistic organization and in our most charismatic leaders the souls of our cruelest oppressors, London Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god and Gordon is losing the war Nearly and rather moth eaten already a poet whose one small book of verse has fallen flatter than any pancake Gordon has given up a good job and gone to work in a bookshop at half his former salary Always broke but too proud to accept charity he rarely sees his few friends and cannot get the virginal Rosemary to bed because or so he believes If you have no money women won t love you On the windowsill of Gordon s shabby rooming house room is a sickly but unkillable aspidistra a plant he abhors as the banner of the sort of mingy lower middle class decency he is fleeing in his downward flight br br In i Keep the Aspidistra Flying i George Orwell has created a darkly compassionate satire to which anyone who has ever been oppressed by the lack of brass or by the need to make it will all too easily relate He etches the ugly insanity of what Gordon calls the money world in unflinching detail but the satire has a second edge too and Gordon himself is scarcely heroic In the course of his misadventures we become grindingly aware that his radical solution to the problem of the money world is no solution at all that in his desperate reaction against a monstrous system he has become something of a monster himself br br Orwell keeps both of his edges sharp to the very end a happy ending that poses tough questions about just how happy it really is That the book itself is not sour but constantly fresh and frequently funny is the result of Orwell s steady unsentimental attention to the telling detail his dry quiet humor his fascination with both the follies and the excellences of his characters and his courageous refusal to embrace the comforts of any easy answer, In Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fascists This famous account describes the war and Orwell s experiences Introduction by Lionel Trilling